Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 08:42:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> To: Philipp Vlassakakis <freebsd-en@lists.vlassakakis.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS + ZFS - Base System readonly Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1808130836490.19407@sas1.nber.org> In-Reply-To: <82BCE4D6-69DF-49E0-8648-4E9F3767D089@lists.vlassakakis.de> References: <82BCE4D6-69DF-49E0-8648-4E9F3767D089@lists.vlassakakis.de>
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Philipp Vlassakakis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has anyone experience in mounting a base system via PXE + NFS as
> readonly and then mount ZFS datasets r/w on top of the base-system?
>
> I would like to boot a basesystem (which is stored on a NFS share) via
> PXE and mount ZFS-Datasets on top of that, so i can rollout specific
> configs (hostname, services...) per Host and give user the ability to
> edit config files (apache, mysql...) and store data on the ZFS-disks,
> which will not be wiped due to a Host reboot.
We have been doing this for many years, for a score of systems. We have a
detailed description of our procedures at:
http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html
It works very well for us. Good luck.
Daniel Feenberg
NBER
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Philipp
>
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